The last decade has witnessed a striking upsurge of interest in Iberian hagiography. In painting and the fine arts through to poetic and narrative treatments composed in Castilian and Catalan, the legacies of Christ, Mary, and the saints have been approached from a range of perspectives and subjected to detailed critical scrutiny. This book, which focuses specifically on the application of theoretical and methodological approaches to analysis, asks what scholars of early Iberian hagiography can bring to the analysis of the sacred past and how the study of the discipline can be taken forward innovatively in the future. Its fourteen essays, each focusing on a different aspect of composition, seek in particular to explore interdisciplinary methodologies and the ways in which they intersect with broader discourses in other branches of research.
Author(s): Andrew M. Beresford, Lesley K. Twomey (eds.)
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 66
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English, Spanish
Pages: 366
City: Leiden
List of Illustrations vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Notes on Contributors x
1. Introduction: Reading Religious Subjects / Andrew M. Beresford and Lesley K. Twomey 1
Part 1. Holy Bodies: Christ, Mary, and the Saints
2. Advocate of Eve: Marian Parturition in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture / Ryan D. Giles 37
3. La sacralización del cuerpo de María en Juan López de Salamanca (para mujeres selectas) y Juan de Robles (para todos) / Fernando Baños Vallejo 57
4. La lactancia en la hagiografía y las revelaciones femeninas: el caso de Juana de la Cruz / Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida 85
5. Knowing Christ Incarnate: Late-Medieval Women (Constanza de Castilla, Isabel de Villena, and Teresa de Cartagena) Writing the Senses / Lesley K. Twomey 113
Part 2. Devout Spirits and Devotional Practice
6. On the Sources and Contexts of Late Medieval Castilian Devotional Practice: Pain and Popular Piety in Gómez Manrique’s 'Representación del nacimiento de Nuestro Señor' / Andrew M. Beresford 149
7. 'Pignora Sanctorum': reliquias y devoción en Hispania tras la conquista musulmana / Ariel Guiance 185
8. The Legend of Saint George in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid MS 10252 / Sarah V. Buxton 213
9. Sobre la tradición catalana medieval de la vida de Julián y Basilisa / Marinela Garcia Sempere 228
Part 3. Saints and Their Audiences
10. Listening and Learning from Oria in Berceo’s 'Vida de Santa Oria' / Connie L. Scarborough 247
11. Lecturas devotas y prohibiciones inquisitoriales: el caso de las vidas de María / Carme Arronis Llopis 268
12. La 'Vita Christi' de Ludolfo de Sajonia y la 'Imago Pietatis': un ejemplo de complementariedad discursiva / Lluís Ramon i Ferrer 287
13. Mary’s Virginity in Ramon Llull’s 'Libre de Santa Maria' / Sarah Jane Boss 319
Index 341
